spectrometer

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Italic *spekjō

Latin speciō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Italic *-trom

Latin -trum

Latin spectrumbor.

English spectrum

English spectro-

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-

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Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Hellenic *-tron

Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)

Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)lbor.

French -mètrebor.

English -meter

English spectrometer

From spectro- + -meter.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spĕk-trŏm′ĭ-tər
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.tə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɑm.ɪ.təɹ/

  Audio (US):

  (file)

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɒm.ɪ.təɹ/
• (Australian) IPA^(key): /spekˈtɹɔm.ɪ.tə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /spekˈtɹɔm.ə.tɐ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtɹɔm.ɪ.təɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: spec‧trom‧e‧ter

Noun

spectrometer (plural spectrometers)

2. (analytical chemistry) An optical instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances; typically it will plot a graph of absorption versus wavelength or frequency, and the patterns produced are used to identify the substances present, and their internal structure.

Derived terms

• fluorospectrometer
• hyperspectrometer
• mass spectrometer
• microspectrometer
• minispectrometer
• photospectrometer
• radiospectrometer
• X-ray spectrometer

Related terms

• spectrometric
• spectrometry

Translations

instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances

• Bengali: বর্ণালীমাপক (bornalimapok)
• Catalan: espectròmetre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 光譜儀 / 光谱仪 (zh) (guāngpǔyí)

• Czech: spektrometr m, vidmoměr m
• Dutch: spectrometer (nl) m
• Finnish: spektrometri
• French: spectromètre (fr) m
• German: Spektrometer (de) n
• Hindi: वर्णक्रममापी (varṇakrammāpī)
• Italian: spettrometro (it) m, spettroscopio m
• Japanese: 分光計 (ぶんこうけい, bunkōkei)
• Kannada: ರೋಹಿತ ಮಾಪಕ (kn) (rōhita māpaka)
• Korean: 분광기 (ko) (bun'gwanggi)
• Malay: spektrometer
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spektrometer n

  Nynorsk: spektrometer n

• Persian: طیف‌سنج (fa) (teyf-sanj)
• Polish: spektrometr (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: espetrómetro m (Portugal), espectrómetro m (Portugal), espectrômetro m (Brazil)
• Romanian: spectrometru (ro) n
• Russian: спектро́метр (ru) m (spektrómetr)
• Spanish: espectrómetro (es)
• Tagalog: balngawsukat
• Turkish: spektrometre

Dutch

Etymology

From spectro- +‎ meter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛkˈtroː.meː.tər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oːmeːtər
• Hyphenation: spec‧tro‧me‧ter

Noun

spectrometer m (plural spectrometers, diminutive spectrometertje n)

2. (analytical chemistry) spectrometer (instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances)

Related terms

• spectrograaf